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... French millinery , of our fair young coun- trywomen - quite un - English . The Victory is Cap- tain S.'s home , and the lady was his daughter . We then went into the cockpit and groped our way to the dark , narrow state - room ( a ...
... French millinery , of our fair young coun- trywomen - quite un - English . The Victory is Cap- tain S.'s home , and the lady was his daughter . We then went into the cockpit and groped our way to the dark , narrow state - room ( a ...
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... French style , in the form of hearts and whim- sical figures , but elsewhere it is completely English , * The prudence of not attempting a description of Winchester Cathedral , or an enumeration of its treasures , will be appreciated by ...
... French style , in the form of hearts and whim- sical figures , but elsewhere it is completely English , * The prudence of not attempting a description of Winchester Cathedral , or an enumeration of its treasures , will be appreciated by ...
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... French milliner's levelling fashion ! Her beautiful arms are classically manifest - bare as Ju- no's . Lawrence employed thirty hours on each of them ! We all lunched with Mrs. An English lunch is our country dinner , served at our ...
... French milliner's levelling fashion ! Her beautiful arms are classically manifest - bare as Ju- no's . Lawrence employed thirty hours on each of them ! We all lunched with Mrs. An English lunch is our country dinner , served at our ...
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... French- woman , who said , on seeing Taglioni , “ Il faut être sage pour danser comme ça " ( one must be virtuous to dance like that ) . I should rather have said , " Il ne faut pas être femme pour danser comme ça . " And I would divide ...
... French- woman , who said , on seeing Taglioni , “ Il faut être sage pour danser comme ça " ( one must be virtuous to dance like that ) . I should rather have said , " Il ne faut pas être femme pour danser comme ça . " And I would divide ...
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... French - glorious robbers ! In a cata- logue of his books , in the poet's own beautiful auto- graph , there were inserted some whimsical titles of books , such as " Nebuchadnezzar on Grasses . " But the most interesting thing in all the ...
... French - glorious robbers ! In a cata- logue of his books , in the poet's own beautiful auto- graph , there were inserted some whimsical titles of books , such as " Nebuchadnezzar on Grasses . " But the most interesting thing in all the ...
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Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, Volume 2 Catharine Maria Sedgwick Visualização completa - 1841 |
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Página 74 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Página 55 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace...
Página 75 - These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulks behind ; Or pining L,ove shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, ,And hard Unkindness...
Página 154 - A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.